Scott (right) pictured in her days at Arsenal’s youth academyI can’t walk down the street at the moment without spotting England captain Leah Williamson on every billboard or bus stop. It is just great to see. Women’s football has been on a steady upward curve for the past 25 years – but in the past two years especially the pace of change has been incredible.Record viewing figures. Record attendances. TV exposure is growing and gradually players are becoming household names. I’ve watched our sport explode in popularity. It’s so far away from my experience getting into the game as a child. Without football I don’t know where I’d be. It’s given me so much. Football has been my life. But I got lucky. I didn’t even know women’s football teams existed when I was younger. I used to go and play with my brother in the local football cage near my house in east London. I then got spotted in a five-a-side tournament in Tower Hamlets. Someone knew someone down at Arsenal. He took me down for a trial and they signed me. I was eight years old and up to then had only played with my brother’s mates.When I was 16 I got a job on the side in the Arsenal laundry room. I used to wash the kit for the men’s players like Ian Wright and Thierry Henry af… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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